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There are two competing theories in the financial world: the Random Walk Theory and the Efficient Market Hypothesis. In the random market you can spread the financial section of the "Washington Post" on the floor and toss pennies on it, picking the stocks that a penny lands on, and expect the same results as a professional stock picker. In the case of an organized market, you can choose stocks based on a system of valuations and, coupled with a world of full disclosure, come out ahead of the penny tossers.
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The theories clash and the debate rages, but with a little help from 20th-century physicist Erwin Schrödinger and a cat in a box, we'll learn that both theories are correct and incorrect, depending entirely upon your vantage point. Read on to learn how the market is just like a cat in a box, and how the entire history of the market can be viewed as a massive forest, with investors nothing more than short-sighted insects crawling across its surface. It's going to be a wild adventure.
Two Worlds One Cat
Not many people would draw similarities between quantum physics and the financial markets, but this type of unconventional thinking can shed light on the random market versus efficient market paradox that Wall Street lives under.
In the 1930s, Schrödinger was puzzling over why the laws of physics that govern our everyday lives are so difficult to apply at the subatomic level. Essentially, at subatomic levels, particles needed to be in more than one mutually exclusive state at the same time. A difficult idea to wrap your head around. The thought experiment he came up with to explain this is now famous. It involves a cat in a box. Along with the cat, inside the box you place a vial of hydrocyanic acid with a hammer suspended above it. There is a switch attached to the hammer that will cause the hammer to drop and break the vial. Next, you attach a Geiger counter to the switch, making it so that the switch will trip if the counter registers any radioactive activity in the box. Finally you place a very small piece of radioactive material inside the box that has a 50-50 chance, each hour, of releasing a particle. Now you can probably guess how this elaborate system all comes together:
1. A particle is released.
2. The Geiger counter senses it.
3. The switch is flipped.
4. The hammer falls.
5. The vial breaks.
6. The kitty dies.
Ah, but wait. It is equally probable that a particle wasn't released and our fuzzy friend still lives. Now, if we open the box after an hour we'll know for sure. However, if we don't open the box and do not observe, then the kitty is neither alive nor dead. It exists in both states simultaneously. The observation itself affects the outcome. This is sometimes called the "observer's paradox."
Now, let's jump back over to the world of investing and our own paradox. Remember, there are two states for the market, random and efficient; the penny tossers versus the market scholars. Those who believe things are random have plenty of observable evidence to prove that it is random, so too do those who believe it is efficient. However, as with tearing the box open to see the cat, observing the market has an effect upon the results. Let's move to the jungle to see how this works. (To learn more, check out Efficient Market Hypothesis: Is The Stock Market Efficient.)
Where the Wild Things Roam
When we scrutinize the market as a whole, there does seem to be a lot of unpredictability. If you were to tilt the stock market's history on its side and then convert every listed company into a plant, you would see a vast forest with thousands of plants shooting up and dying in seconds and clutches of saplings and trees here and there. Some of these trees would start from separate roots only to grow together and split again. Some of the grasses may spontaneously become a sapling or be absorbed by one. The random market proponents are like ladybugs. From their vantage point, the world is chaotic and random. Which plants (companies) thrive and succeed versus those that die off and fail is unpredictable and overwhelming. (To learn more, read Mad Money ... Mad Market?)
It is the inability to see everything that makes stock markets look random. Rush hour traffic looks like chaos when you are in it, but from far above it looks as well designed as the circulatory system. This is where a structured market comes in. You have to make generalizations and somewhat marginal decisions to clear-cut the forest and get down to a few promising plants. In a truly random market, this would be impossible.
People like Warren Buffett, however, continue to prove that both structure and chaos exist simultaneously. Buffett is an expert at generalizing and, if you read his letters to his shareholders, you will realize that he rarely speaks about specifics.
The Buffett Paradox
The Oracle of Omaha proves that there is a structure to the markets, but he also states that he doesn't believe the markets are always efficient. If they were completely efficient, he wouldn't be able to beat the market because everyone would act in same way, buying the exact right stocks at the exact right time. If the market were completely random, he would be a statistical anomaly of immense size. In truth, Buffett and many of the other market mavens profit from moments of chaos and inefficiency in an otherwise efficient market. The inefficiency is all the other people involved in the market. Investor reaction, either overreaction or a lack of reaction, to the data is anything but predictable.
This uncertainty is what makes trading in growth stocks so exciting. You are not looking at the companies represented by the stocks, companies that are in all likelihood trading at many multiples of their earnings; intsead, you are trying to understand the reactions of other investors toward that stock. There are some people who are very good at this, more who are occasionally good at it, and the rest who break even if they are lucky, but often do worse. Even the introduction of structure to the practice of trading, in the form of new metrics and computer software, has not been able to tame the uncertainty. This uncertainty exists in all parts of the markets, but it has the most pull in growth stocks where ranks of traders and analysts cultivate it for their own ends. (To learn more, read Venturing Into Early-Stage Growth Stocks.)
Choosing Your Own World
You, as an investor, control what the market is in a very real sense. If you approach it believing it to be random, you will see a lot of numbers arbitrarily flipping about on a graph or newspaper sheet. These numbers will coalesce in patterns that start you down the path to day trading. When you make a mistake, you will attribute it to the unpredictable nature of investing. You may also become skilled at tossing pennies. (If this theory appeals to you, check out Day Trading: An Introduction, Would You Profit As A Day Trader? and Day Trading Strategies For Beginners.)
On the other hand, if you approach investing like you would approach learning how to become a surgeon, you will see that there are forces at work that generally act the same in all situations: bubbles burst, companies with advantages flourish, people need goods. You will also see that, like surgery, there are instructions and techniques to help you get better results. True, there are people who invest successfully owing to some inner talent, but talent will only take you so far. Most people need some form of a blueprint and a grasp of the fundamentals first or they end up with a dead bodies and malpractice lawsuits. (If order and structure are more your style, check out Using The Price-To-Book Ratio To Evaluate Companies and Warren Buffett: How He Does It.)
The Bottom Line
In order to be an effective investor, you have to do what quantum physicists do, consider the market as both random and efficient. There will never be a perfectly efficient market as long as there are investors buying into it. This doesn't, however, mean that the market is so random that no effort on your part can help you profit. You should never remove uncertainty, or by extension, risk, from your thinking, but you should act as if forces that are generally efficient rule the market. After that, leave the debate up to the economists who are paid to keep it going, because sometimes being a ladybug in a giant forest is enough to worry about on its own.
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Juror No. 4 Says No O.K. Sign and No Guilty Vote
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She insisted yesterday that she had kept an open mind throughout the trial. It was not until the jury deliberations, she said, that she became convinced that the defendants were not guilty of the charges in the indictment -- grand larceny, securities fraud and conspiracy.
Ms. Jordan was critical of the prosecutors, who she said overwhelmed the jury with evidence of Mr. Kozlowski's lavish spending, like the $6,000 shower curtain and $2 million birthday party for his wife on Sardinia.
''I was repelled by the district attorney's bringing it on, and I heard other jurors say they were insulted,'' she recounted. ''It was brought in to prejudice the minds of the jurors. It made me think maybe the prosecution doesn't have a very good case.''
Other former Tyco jurors have also said that they found the prosecutors' presentation of Mr. Kozlowski's spending habits irrelevant.
Ms. Jordan put it this way: ''I feel very strongly throughout this whole process that even ugly people deserve justice. Even people who have bad habits deserve justice. People who have repellent lifestyles. Even greedy people -- if they are greedy. Even people who have so much they don't know how to spend it, and still want more. Even they deserve justice when it comes to whether or not they committed a crime.''
Ms. Jordan also said she had not been swayed by the testimony of several former members of the Tyco board, who said that many of the millions of dollars in payments that Mr. Kozlowski and Mr. Swartz received had not been authorized.
''I did not have confidence in the directors' testimony,'' she said, explaining that they all had a vested interest in blaming the defendants because -- as the jury was told in court -- they themselves are facing a raft of civil suits.
Another former Tyco juror, when told last evening of Ms. Jordan's comments that a hung jury was inevitable despite her willingness to deliberate during the final week, did not argue. ''Since we never had that last hour or so to lock things in, that may have been how it played out,'' Pete McEntegart, a writer for Sports Illustrated, said.
Another juror, Greg Sutton, a banking consultant, was told of Ms. Jordan's assessment that she would have been the lone holdout for acquittal on all counts. ''I would agree with that,'' Mr. Sutton said. ''It was very hard for all of us to get our heads around criminal intent.''
But Mr. Sutton also said that despite the anguished notes to the judge the week before last, the rest of the jury had not ostracized Ms. Jordan.
''It wasn't like this 11-to-1 lynch mob,'' he said. ''We debated, and we all came to our own individual conclusions. I do think that we ended up all being of an open mind.''
For her part, Ms. Jordan said yesterday that news media descriptions of her as a wealthy Manhattanite aloof from her fellow jurors had been overstated.
Ms. Jordan, who taught history at the private Lenox School in Manhattan before attending New York Law School in her late 50's and practicing law for a few years at two major firms, is divorced from William Jordan Jr., once a partner at the New York law firm of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. They sent their son and daughter to private schools.
But she indicated that hers is not the life of an affluent Upper East Side retiree. ''I live in a one-bedroom apartment in a rent-stabilized building,'' she said. And contrary to news reports that she had taken a chauffeured limousine to the courthouse each day, she said that most of the time she rode the subway.
''I get the half-fare'' as a senior citizen, she said. (She said she had used a car service for only two days, after hurting her hip toward the end of the trial.)
She also wanted to make clear, contrary to previous reports, that she always tips the doormen in her building at Christmas -- by writing a check that is distributed to all the employees.
She said that she had deliberately avoided news coverage of the trial while still on the jury, but that it was ''outrageous'' that her name had been published while the deliberations were still under way.
Since the mistrial, Ms. Jordan said her telephone answering machine had filled up repeatedly with calls seeking interviews. She said she agreed to grant a joint interview to The Times and ''60 Minutes II'' with the intention of making it her main public statement about the Tyco trial.
In the interview, at a CBS News studio on West 57th Street in Manhattan, Ms. Jordan said she wanted to grant an interview to clear up much of the speculation about her role in the trial. Near tears, she said she would not change her mind about the case if she could serve on the jury again:
''If I had voted against my conscience and said, 'All right, they're guilty,' when I don't believe it, then why can't anybody else do the same thing?'' she asked. ''And that's an absolute destruction of what the jury system is about.''
Photos: Juror No.4, Ruth B. Jordan, leaving State Supreme Court in Manhattan last Friday after a mistrial was declared in the Tyco case. (Photo by Associated Press)(pg. C2); ''It was going to be a hung jury'' in the Tyco trial, Ruth B. Jordan said. (Photo by Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times)(pg. A1)


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Ate here for lunch. The food was good, not great. OK for lunch. The service was exceptional and the food was reasonably priced.
I work for a large corporation and we just opened a store almost across the street from this place. We meet once every two weeks and I will not visit your restaurant again.
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First of all, the service was terrible. The young girl was extremely rude and when we asked if there would be more food added to the buffet, she said it was almost over and no there wouldn't be (it was 2 pm, it ended at 3 pm and all the food was cold and stale.) The flan was completely burnt,...
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Published: Saturday, March 31, 2007 at 6:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, March 30, 2007 at 2:42 p.m.
About Hacienda Hills Bar and Grill:
"Don't go to Hacienda Hills if you're looking for a fine dining experience. In fact, if you're just looking for a decent dinner, you might be disappointed. We went last week, and I doubt we'll be returning except perhaps for a lunch. I ordered grilled salmon cooked rare. My wife and another member of our party ordered the meatloaf, and the fourth ordered the quesadilla appetizer. I had to return my salmon. It was overcooked. Forget presentation. When my dinner finally arrived, everyone else was done with theirs. They got the rare part right the second time; however, the chef seemed to have left off the seasoning. It was virtually tasteless. The meatloaf was OK but nothing to write home about. Three of us had roasted red potatoes as one of our side dishes. Again, no seasoning. Just a few small red potatoes sitting on our plate. The mixed vegetables of the day was 'canned' corn, peas and carrots - tasteless. Less drinks and tip, our part of the bill came to $25 for two. Not worth the cost."
By Reviewer Martin G. 3/07
About Main Street Bistro: "On a Friday night at 5 p.m. it's hard to find a restaurant that isn't crowded. We had a 10 minute wait for a party of five. Vicky recommended that we order from their special Friday seafood menu for faster service. My better half had fried clams with baked potato and slaw that were slightly underdone. I had the fried shrimp with a baker and slaw, too. Must have been six very large shrimp that were cooked right and were very tasty. With two house wines and an iced tea, the bill was $36 for two. We enjoy eating outside. We've sampled their tapas in the past, and they are excellent. So try them for lunch. This place has the right formula for unique dishes, but it's easy for the kitchen to get backed up at night. The atmosphere inside is different than other eateries, too. It's a nice hang-out with good food."
By Reviewer Rich C. 3/07
On the plus side, at the Cattle Baron Club, veal marsala and prime rib were "done just right," writes "Gordon M." Mussels and garlic at Carraba's Italian Grill were "to die for," and the staff was well-trained, wrote "Ellen H." Cane Garden Country Club had great service and served "the best pot roast sandwich" that "James D." ever had.
You might have guessed it. A new restaurant review Web site has been launched, describing experiences at establishments "in, near and far away" from The Villages. The site gives gloves-off reviews for tender tastebuds of some of the most popular eating places around town, plus tips for the best dining times, the friendliest wait staff and best menu items.
Writing the reviews are arguably some of the most discriminating palates in The Villages - members of The Villages Gourmet In or Out Club, which is a sticking point to at least one restaurant owner.
"They're a small group of people who are bashing a lot of people for a lot of silly things," said Ronald Averbeck, owner of Margarita Republic, whose restaurant was given a thumbs-down for a long wait time and food that "was not very good," by reviewer "Dennis C."
"Why don't they send someone who's educated in the business who knows what's really going on?" Averbeck asked.
Professional reviewers would have accounted for variables and been more specific about what was wrong with the food, said the restaurateur, who managed restaurants in Clearwater and said he was responsible for turning Gator Joe's on Lake Weir into a family hotspot.
"There are a lot of things that can happen," he said. "We're dealing with kids and a lack of labor pool in the area. You can't base a decision on one visit. If I served a rat on a plate, then I'd understand."
Citing a review about pricey Chateaubriand - $69.99 for two - at Palmer Legends Country Club, Averbeck said, "It's the best cut of beef you're going to get. They should have been jumping up and down that it wasn't $80."
Whether the site will help or hurt business has yet to be seen.
H.G. Parsa, a professor of hospitality management at Ohio State, said restaurant reviews have little or no long-term effects on an establishment's long-term business.
"They're purely temporary," Parsa said. "In the long run, it's the customers who go to the restaurant who decide" its success. When Indiana and Ohio posted health inspection reports on the Web, there was "no effect" on business, he said.
The Villages site has been slamming and celebrating restaurants since January and already lists 61 restaurants in The Villages, 34 nearby and 65 far away from the retirement community, ranging from Tampa and Orlando to Mount Dora and Eustis. Many of them still await reviews.
The club's prolific affiliates meet quarterly to enjoy gourmet experiences in each other's homes or out at eating establishments. To date, the only fee is a $2 meeting cost that covers materials and snacks.
The site doesn't accept nonmember reviews, or appraisals of fast-food establishments where no table service is offered, but it is taking a survey about "the very best" ice cream in The Villages. It also lists prices, phone numbers, locations and business hours.
"It's important that people feel they have a good dining experience," says Gourmet Club co-president Dottie Klein, who runs the group with her husband, Dan. "When they go out, they should be able to access the Web site to see if it's a good place to eat or not."
She's hoping restaurants with bad reviews will try a little harder.
Club meetings are held quarterly. The last was Sunday at Allamanda Recreation Center, and the next is July 1. Klein said a large number of people have tried to write reviews but have been turned away because they're not members.
At the meetings, members decide whether to socialize by eating at each other's homes, dining out together or both. Names are grouped together, singles are paired, and the fun begins.
Klein said she was motivated to start the gourmet group after moving to The Villages after living in southern California and Seattle.
"I have the reputation of being a gourmet cook, and my husband loves to eat," she said. "We just know what good food is and isn't."
Declining to name eateries that disappointed her, she opted to name her favorites: Little Italy in Inverness for the overall best dining experience, Cane Garden and Nancy Lopez for their consistent high quality, Isabella's for "excellent" Italian food, and Thai Ruby for its "fresh and well prepared" ethnic dishes.
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-- Confidence by age and income: The percentage saying they are very confident about having enough money for a comfortable retirement decreased from 31 percent in 2007 to 18 percent in 2008 among workers ages 25-34, and from 28 percent to 16 percent among workers ages 35-44. Similarly, it decreased from 14 percent to 5 percent among workers with household income under $35,000 and from 25 percent to 13 percent among those with income of $35,000-$74,999.
The survey also provides some evidence that concerns about the present may be limiting Americans' ability to think about or plan for their future situation in retirement. When asked what they think is the most pressing financial issue facing most Americans today, just 5 percent of workers and 4 percent of retirees cited saving or planning for retirement. Instead, most mention:
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Christopher Rueth blew off college for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: a $100,000 grant to work on wireless Internet technology.
The 17-year-old San Diego native is part of the 20 Under 20 grant program started by Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and an early Facebook investor. The business magnate is now paying promising innovators to skip college and pursue their own ideas instead. The initiative has fueled debate about whether the ever-rising cost of a college education is worth it.
In forgoing a college degree, Mr. Rueth and his 20 Under 20 colleagues are following in some famous footsteps: Bill Gates, the billionaire Microsoft founder, dropped out Harvard without getting a degree; Michael Dell, CEO of the behemoth computer company that bears his name, never finished his studies at the University of Texas; and Steve Jobs, the iconic Apple chief, left Reed College in Oregon without a diploma.
More recently, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard and made billions of dollars as CEO of the world's most successful social networking site. At least 19 Fortune 500 CEOs never finished college, according to a recent survey by U.S. News & World Report. Talk-show host Rush Limbaugh dropped out of Southeast Missouri State University after two semesters and a summer but has become the nation's most successful radio personality.
Despite those stories, Mr. Rueth still hasn't convinced his toughest critic that he is doing the right thing.
"My dad isn't thrilled that I'm not going to college," he told The Washington Times.
The vast majority of parents share that sentiment. In a recent Pew Research Center study, 94 percent said they expect their child to attend college. Before connecting with Mr. Thiel's foundation, Mr. Rueth planned to do just that.
"I certainly did have the plan to go off to college, until I realized that I didn't fit in," he said. "I never really fit in in high school. I was always 'that hacker kid.' In the right situation, and if someone can afford it, college can be the right direction. But if you're a nonconformist, you're just not going to be happy there."
While not enthusiastic about college, Mr. Rueth was fascinated by the Internet. He plans to use his $100,000 grant to develop Wi-Fi hot spots that can break through government barriers in places such as Iran and China, where government heavily controls Internet access.
Gary Kurek, another beneficiary of a Thiel Foundation grant, was offered a full scholarship to the University of Calgary. He turned it down.
"I still personally think the traditional road of education, going to college, is still the best route for most people," he said.
"But there are a handful in every crowd that are a little more rebellious, a little different, that need something else," said Mr. Kurek, an Edmonton, Alberta, native who plans to use his $100,000 for research into mobility aids for the physically disabled.
Before finishing high school, he founded GET Mobility Solutions and has developed, among other things, a walker-wheelchair hybrid.
But the dropout success stories are the exceptions, not the rule, education specialists say.
Trying to follow the examples of Mr. Gates, Mr. Zuckerberg or Mr. Kurek carries serious risk for the average student, said Brooks C. Holtom, associate professor in the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University and consultant to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
"These are exceptional people," he said of those who avoid college but succeed in the business world. "If you look at lifetime earnings of high school graduates and people who are college undergraduates ... you see important differences. You're talking about millions of dollars in lifetime earnings. But when you have a classmate who [drops out and finds success], it's easy to say, 'Well, hey, I wonder if?' "
The brightest minds with the best ideas, Mr. Holtom added, increase their chances of success with a college education.
"Having the theories, the framework from school, you increase the odds that you can execute on that idea," he said.
The chances of an average student founding a cutting-edge company like Apple or a wildly popular website like Facebook, Mr. Holtom said, are slim.
The vast majority of students instead will find work with established companies, which are rarely interested in people without college degrees. Most people, he said, "are average," and shouldn't convince themselves that a better life awaits if they drop out of college or skip it altogether.
The average college graduate will earn about $20,000 more each year than the average person with only a high school diploma, according to 2010 data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Those with master's or doctorate degrees typically further enhance their earning power.
With that in mind, the Thiel Foundation isn't recommending that every student drop out of college.
"For some people, college is a really shrewd investment," foundation Director James O'Neill said. "But for other people, college is basically a debt-fueled luxury good" that doesn't lead to a good job.
He said innovators often have to set aside their ideas and find steady jobs to pay off thousands of dollars in college debt. By working with Mr. Kurek, Mr. Rueth and others, Mr. O'Neill said, their creativity will be more easily unleashed.
Even while pursuing their dreams, the 20 Under 20 participants aren't closing any doors.
"In two years, if my company goes belly up ... I can always just go back to school," Mr. Kurek said.
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The photos here are a record of my life, the places I go to, the people I meet and see and the experiences I am having. Many times, the photos accompany and illustrate the blog which I maintain - charlesfred.blogspot.com
I am very lucky to be able to travel as often and as widely as I do and it gives me great pleasure to share what I have seen with a wider audience here on Flickr. I tend to concentrate on positive, colourful images, often of people and I like to think of my photos as an antidote to the images often presented of places and people in the mainstream media.
You are especially invited to view the sets of photos taken during the six month journey I made with my partner, Fred, through the Middle East, Horn of Africa and Southern Africa during the latter part of 2005, this being the original reason for setting up the flickr account .
Thanks to everyone who has taken the trouble to browse through my photostream, leave comments or favourited various photos. Much appreciated.
Make yours @ BigHugeLabs.com
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Testimonials (7)
Afrazov says:
"I love Charles' stream. It has got everything, awesome people, cute kids, kissable goat kids and sheep and donkeys and awesome orange stuff and amazing totally not run of the mill pics of places, lovely Masjids and loads of other great stuff. I love the way he lets us see all the different aspects of a place. He takes this seriously in a fun kind of a way.
I want to be able to take pics like him. A great friend. Will love to meet him one day."
June 14th, 2011
halifaxlight says:
"CharlesFred was one of my earliest Flickr contacts. His photostream is large and diverse. It shows us places that are often off the main tourist paths and introduces us to the people that live there with a true sensitivity. His photos are informative and from the heart."
November 11th, 2009
Daveness_98 says:
"CharlesFred encompasses all that is best in a photographer. His eye for detail and technical expertise is unsurpassed, giving his pictures a sharp and vibrant look. However, it is the humanity revealed in his photographs that makes all the difference. It is obvious that the subjects he photographs are people he interacted with, and built up trust with. It is obvious that he has a gift with people as well as with photography."
August 27th, 2008
Hanna.Ali says:
"Wow, I don't even know where to start! More than just aesthetically amazing, Charles' photos are like a powerful political exclamation mark - "Look here! Look at the world! Look what's REALLY going on!" He captures rare beauty that we rarely see on the news and those beautifully sad moments that depict the human spirit against all odds. I am so so so so inspired!
- Hanna"
March 2nd, 2008
marbrax says:
"Charles is a really great guy, always interested in others. He's a world traveller - either on his own or together with Fred and makes beautiful photos of his adventures. I often look at his picture sets, because they're really worth looking at. Charles, keep it up!
Charles is een hele fijne vent. Altijd even belangstellend. Hij maakt vele reizen, dit doet hij alleen of samen met Fred, en maakt daar prachtige foto reportages van. Ik bekijk altijd meerdere keren zijn sets, omdat dit de moeite waard is. Charles blijf lekker zo door gaan."
April 21st, 2007
Mitamada says:
"I love Charles' works. He has a talent to pick up the interestingness of such a normal scene, normal event.
There are many flickrs who posted only their beuaitful works but Charles works are different. he seems to post many of photos he got travelling on. so you feel like travelling with him just looking at his photos. And those photos that he post they are all interesting.
I also love his Namibia and Afriacan sets alot. I will definitely need to come back and fav alot of photos later, now that i have no high speed net yet hehe"
February 22nd, 2007
romeoergatto says:
"He is an unusual British man, not always conventional and with a peculiar sense of humour. Extraordinarily clever, friendly .... and with a temperament, also handsome......it seems. But his actual strength is in his eyes when scanning something for a shoot. His eyes and his camera. All this together develop a superlative chemical reaction, and the result is "UNBELIEVABLE PHOTOS"
When I look at his pictures I can feel the same emotion, like being there and living the same experience. Excellent colours and compositions, amazing places .... and people, just like being there with him. Thank you Charles, for sharing all this with us."
August 31st, 2006
- Name:
- Charles Roffey
- Joined:
- July 2005
- Hometown:
- Hargeisa
- Currently:
- Living in Amsterdam, traveling widely
- I am:
- Male
- Website:
- CharlesFred


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Votes: 40,629
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20. Nurse Betty (2000)
R | 110 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
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Votes: 29,541
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R | 102 min | Thriller
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22. Edge of Eternity (1959)
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Votes: 362
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Votes: 2,596
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29. Hollywood or Bust (1956)
95 min | Comedy, Musical
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R | 91 min | Comedy, Horror, Western
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31. Winged Migration (2001)
G | 89 min | Documentary
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R | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
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33. Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk (2008)
44 min | Documentary, Adventure
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Votes: 293
34. Earthflight (2011–2012)
59 min | Documentary
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Star: David Tennant
Votes: 337
35. Grand Canyon: The Hidden Secrets (1984)
35 min | Documentary, Short
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Creator: Kieth Merrill | Director: Kieth Merrill | Stars: Daniel T. Majetich, Coby Jordan, Bruce Simballa, Stuart Reeder
Votes: 214
36. The Adventures of the American Rabbit (1986)
G | 85 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy
To fight evil, a young rabbit can transform into a star spangled superhero.
Writers: Stewart Moskowitz, Norm Lenzer | Directors: Nobutaka Nishizawa, Fred Wolf | Stars: Bob Arbogast, Pat Fraley, Barry Gordon, Bob Holt
Votes: 309
37. Smoke Signal (1955)
Passed | 88 min | Action, Drama, Western
A suspected cavalry deserter proves to be resourceful in helping the surviving members of a fort, flee Indians along a dangerous river.
Writers: George F. Slavin, George W. George | Director: Jerry Hopper | Stars: Dana Andrews, Piper Laurie, Rex Reason, William Talman
Votes: 174
38. The Road to Yesterday (1925)
107 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A married couple discover their strained relationship is the result of unhappiness in their past lives.
Writers: Beulah Marie Dix, Howard Hawks, Jeanie Macpherson, Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland | Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Joseph Schildkraut, Jetta Goudal, William Boyd, Vera Reynolds
Votes: 85
39. The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (1986 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 94 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
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Writers: Larry Brody, Janis Hendler, James M. Miller | Director: Ray Danton | Stars: Stacy Keach, Emily Rose Chance, Don Stroud, Lindsay Bloom
Votes: 137
40. Exodus Fall (2011)
93 min | Drama
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Writer: Chad Waterhouse | Directors: Ankush Kohli, Chad Waterhouse | Stars: Jesse James, Rosanna Arquette, Adrien Finkel, Devon Graye
Votes: 38
41. Brighty of the Grand Canyon (1967)
89 min | Drama, Family
Writers: Norman Foster, Marguerite Henry | Director: Norman Foster | Stars: Jiggs the Donkey, Joseph Cotten, Pat Conway, Dick Foran
Votes: 96
42. Grand Canyon Massacre (1964)
89 min | Western
(1965) James Mitchum George Ardisson, Giacomo Rossi-Stuart, Jill Powers, Eduardo Ciannelli. After a search for his father's killers, Mitchum returns home only to find himself involved in a ... See full summary »
Writers: Fede Arnaud, Albert Band, Sergio Corbucci | Directors: Albert Band, Sergio Corbucci | Stars: James Mitchum, Milla Sannoner, George Ardisson, Giacomo Rossi Stuart
Votes: 129
43. Great Natural Wonders of the World (2002 TV Movie)
57 min | Documentary
David Attenborough sets out on an intrepid quest across seven continents to create a unique television event to celebrate the wealth of natural features that makes Planet Earth so varied, so distinctive and so spectacularly beautiful.
Writer: Peter Crawford | Star: David Attenborough
Votes: 68
44. The Same River Twice (2003)
Unrated | 78 min | Documentary, Adventure
From peyote to prozac, a sensitive portrait of five former hippies now approaching middle age.
Director: Robb Moss
Votes: 252
45. Grand Canyon (1958)
Approved | 29 min | Short, Documentary
Scenes from the Grand Canyon set to Ferde Grofé's "Grand Canyon Suite."
Director: James Algar
Votes: 314
46. Family Honeymoon (1948)
90 min | Comedy
A bachelor marries a widow and her three kids join the honeymoon.
Writers: Homer Croy, Dane Lussier | Director: Claude Binyon | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Rita Johnson, William H. Daniels
Votes: 134
47. Buckaroo Bugs (1944)
9 min | Family, Western, Animation
Bugs is the Masked Marauder, a carrot thief whom Brooklyn's Red Hot Ryder must try to bring to justice.
Writer: Lou Lilly | Director: Robert Clampett | Stars: Mel Blanc, Robert C. Bruce
Votes: 299
48. Eve (I) (2002)
76 min | Adventure, Fantasy
The story of the first woman on earth, as she journeys through mythical landscapes in search of her soul-mate.
Writer: Neil St. Clair | Director: Neil St. Clair | Stars: Inger Ebeltoft, Matt Scarborough, Stacey Atkinson, Maria Cilea
Votes: 154
49. Cadillac Desert (1997 TV Mini-Series)
Documentary, History
The amazing transformation of the American Southwest in the 20th century, from desert to oasis.
Stars: Alfre Woodard, David Brower, Floyd Dominy, Barry Goldwater
Votes: 54
50. La sfida dei MacKenna (1970)
81 min | Western
An American drifter becomes involved in a deadly family dispute. A powerful Mexican rancher orders the killing of his daughter's boyfriend. Jones earns the wrath of the father when he finds the body and buries it.
Writers: Pedro Gil Paradela, León Klimovsky, Edoardo Mulargia, Antonio Viader | Director: León Klimovsky | Stars: Robert Woods, John Ireland, Annabella Incontrera, Roberto Camardiel
Votes: 37


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"The Darkness and the Light"- was it true to character?
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August 10 2010, 02:01 PM
Nerys Ghemor
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Re: "The Darkness and the Light"- was it true to character?
flemm wrote:
There is simply no guarantee, based on what we saw in the episode, that remaining on the station would have been safer. Kira felt she had to take action to protect her comrades, herself and thereby the baby. Her quarters had just been blown up despite all the security measures that were in place. Prin had already bypassed Starfleet transporter protocols. She decided not to sit around and wait for herself and the baby to be blown up. It's not about pride, but a matter of fighting for survival, or not fighting.
It would've probably taken something major--something, like I said, possibly even on the order of faking her death--but still, I think everything she did in that episode: going there, going there alone, going there while pregnant and endangering someone else's child, was reprehensible. Like I said, had it been her own life, I wouldn't have a problem with it, but she owes it to the O'Briens' child not to subject THEIR son to a risk even more extreme than the one Prin was subjecting her to on-station. And even if there was NO alternative to her going, then she should not have gone alone; at the very least, Odo should've gone, because of all the crewmembers, he could avoid detection and make Prin THINK she was coming alone.
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